GCSE Classical Greek literature set texts: Herodotus, Histories

Herodotus, Histories, ‘The Ethiopians’
Read by Professor David Langslow
Cambyses, King of Persia, sends men to spy on the Ethiopians and, in particular, to find out about the mysterious Table of the Sun.

Classics for All has produced these videos for GCSE students studying Ancient Greek who may not have had the opportunity to hear the texts read in the original Greek.

Classical Greek GCSE: OCR prescription 2020-2021
PROSE A: J292/02
Text taken from ‘OCR Anthology of Classical Greek GCSE’, edited by J. Affleck & C. Letchford, Bloomsbury 2016

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